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“Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible.”

Nature Pleasure Impossible Creating

Book:The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome

Source: The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome

“It is impossible to be among the woods animals on their own ground without a feeling of expanding one's own world, as when any foreign country is visited.”

World Country Feelings Nature Animal Impossible Woods Expanding Foreign Countries

Book:Cross Creek

Source: Cross Creek

“What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.”

Law Nature Impossible Impossibility

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.”

Men Humans Art Nature Natural Human Beings Impossible Unnatural

Author:Philip Jose Farmer

“The entrance into Zen is the grasping of one's essential nature. It is absolutely impossible, however, to come to a clear understanding of our essential nature by any intellectual or philosophical method. It is accomplished only by the experience of self-realization through zazen.”

Self Understanding Nature Clear Impossible Essentials Intellectual Experience Philosophical Method Self Realization Realization Accomplished Entrances Grasping

Book:The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans

Source: The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans

“Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.”

Knows Men Nature Knowing Doubt Impossible Personality Cures Regions Adequate Fullness Knowing God

Author:Thornton T. Munger

“It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.”

Different Form Law Nature Impossible Circumstances Laws Of Nature

Author:Karl Marx

“Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.”

Men Nature Power Impossible Arms Faculty Encouraging Feats

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.”

Source: The Revolt of the Angels: Works by France

“Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee, but not impossible to plan for in a sense. I do not think Dr. Whitney deliberately plans his serendipity but he is built that way; he has the art-an instinctive way of preparing himself by his curiosity and by his interest in people and in all kinds of things and in nature, so that the things he learns react on one another and thereby accomplish things that would be impossible to foresee and plan.”